Red

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegantly crafted medium bodied cabernet with a strong contribution from red fruits to the varietal blackcurrant. Aromas of graphite and sea shell work in to the nose, while the palate delivers with control and effortless ease. Fine tannins and neatly applied oak add subtle support. Has a bright lift on the finish.

Margaret River

Petit Verdot

This warmer and generous vintage suited varieties like petit verdot which require the warmth and hang time on the vine to achieve their best. Lots of dark black fruits with chocolate and spices in abundance. The palate is generous and plush with chalky tannins and understated oak in support. Attractive style.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Another classy chardonnay under this label. On the nose there's a mix of pear and lemon zest with a little saline purity. The palate is finely presented with a lemon and vanillin character merging with just a trace of lifted honeysuckle blossom. No it's settled a creamy texture is developing on the palate.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a refined and beautifully elegant cabernet expressing the best elements of this Margaret River vintage. On the nose there an engaging combination of red currant and blackberry, black olive. A thread of graphite speaks loudly of cabernet while dark blackcurrant fruits with a chocolatey richness build on the palate. Perfectly integrated with fine oak and a chalky tannin...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Another super exciting step forward from Driftwood. A most polished and expressive cabernet of medium to full body and crafted along classic cabernet lines. The colour is bright and radiates from the glass. The nose is a beautiful combination of cranberry and cassis with a chalky oyster shell minerality. The palate is exquisitely seamless and integrated. A wine of real...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It's a marvellous wine from a marvellous vintage. It's medium to full-bodied, but it's deeply concentrated with powerful blackcurrant, bay leaf, and a little olive tapenade complexity. The aroma lifts from the glass with beautiful floral aromatics. The palate is controlled, neatly integrated with fine chalky tannins, and well-managed oak holding the line, carrying it through to a sustained finish....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

My guess was that this would probably be the best cabernet yet released from Driftwood. It didn't take long to confirm that. It's a marvellous wine from a marvellous vintage. It's medium to full-bodied, but it's deeply concentrated with powerful blackcurrant, bay leaf, and a little olive tapenade complexity. The aroma lifts from the glass with beautiful floral aromatics. The...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

You hear, and rightfully so, about the shiraz from Frankland, but the region does some outstanding cabernets as well. This one shows a strong varietal blackcurrant and slightly graphite cracked seashell character on the nose that takes you into the structure and controlled palate. It’s more medium to full bodied but the fruit intensity is excellent.

Frankland River

Shiraz

The fruit for this excellent shiraz has been sourced from Frankland River. It’s a beautiful wine that reflects this super region for shiraz. Lifted floral bouquet with a glazed cherry and dark plum combo. The palate is supple bright and vibrant with fine chalky tannins and a faint hint of ironstone lurking within. So beautifully balanced.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firmish medium bodied cabernet from this excellent red vintage, showing the deep of fruit intensity and rich flavours you expect. Leafy blackcurrant and light cedar with a trace of graphite and bay leaf on the nose. The palate is tightly wound but with good fruit intensity focussed to the finish.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A stylish expression of the cooler vintage in Margaret River. A smooth and velvety shiraz with lots of of savoury dark plum and blueberry aromas mingling on the nose. The palate is medium weight with well-integrated vanillin oak and fine tannins supporting through to the finish. A faint hint of licorice lifts.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Captures the elegance and style of this vintage in Margaret River. Blackcurrant and dark plum with a chalky bay leaf overlay on the nose. The palate is held with control by fine chalky tannin and tidy oak with the graphite influence emerging as it breathes. Good depth and persistence. Mighty good value here.

Margaret River

Shiraz

The combination of dark plum, cloves and dark chocolate on the nose gets you ready for the palate. It's deep and generous with supple fruit flavours supported by a fine oak and chalky tannin guide. Has a dry earthy and slightly savoury finish.

Swan Valley

Cabernet Blend

This was from the Covid year and is really starting to move into its work. Vibrant aromas of blackberry and dark plum with a lifted red berry influence. A little dark chocolate adds to the palate composition. The palate is generous and beautifully composed, with vibrant, lively fruit supported by fine tannins and gentle oak. The oak was a mix...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

A generous shiraz showing some distinctive earthy and slightly dried herb characters on the nose. A little tarry edginess complements neatly. The palate is warm and generous, with a neat contribution from 18 months in oak and the supporting chalky, fine tannins. You need to let this one breathe, as it opens up nicely with a little air. The plush...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Hard to beat this classic Margaret River combination in a very good year. It's more towards medium bodied and so stylish and poised as it drives effortlessly to a long finish. Aromas of graphite and bay leaf reveal immediately with very subtle olive tapenade in the background. The fleshy merlot fills the palate neatly while the cabernet adds those firm...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A most elegant and stylish expression of this blend. Highly scented aromas of violet, red berry and leafy blackcurrant. The palate is powerfully structured but with the finesse of fine tannins and fine-grained oak working in harmony. There’s a thread of minerality adding to that core taking it through to a sustained finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Brings together the power and structure of cabernet from these old vines, with the lifted perfumes of merlot on the nose and a slightly plush, plump middle-palate richness. It has a fine, seamless structure with a chalky, minerally thread of tannins, and a nice combination of oak. Perfectly balanced and poised. Most attractive drinking.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Colour is deep, but quite brilliant. The nose is pure essence of cabernet with a mix of blackcurrant, bay leaf, subtle minerally oyster shell, and some deeper plummy black olive nuances. There's an effortless feel to the palate and yet it's powerful and deeply intense. Captures the dark fruits of cabernet, but there's a little lift of red fruit to...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Elegance and style with a flourish. It’s all in this excellent shiraz. The power and concentration is almost hidden in the structural refinement of fine tannin and fine-grained oak which harnesses and controls. Perfumed mulberry and dark plum on the nose. The palate is loaded with red fruit and supported by chalky tannins.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A mighty good partner to the cabernet from the same vintage. This is thick and densely concentrated with lashings of dark plum, fruit cake and rich dark chocolate. Yet there is restraint and refinement that comes with this cooler Margaret River vintage. Add to that some mulberry and savoury oak influences and you have an outstanding example of shiraz from...

Margaret River

Shiraz

This is such a good wine from these old vines on the Redbrook Vineyard, planted back in 1975. On the nose, there's some lifted florals, cocoa, dark chocolate, and spicy plum. It's a compelling weave of aromatics. The palate is quite sublime: plush and richly textured with a grainy, slightly gravelly tannin feel, but at the same time, it's seamlessly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Okay, here's the thing. I loved this wine when first tasted last year and gave t very high points. But the extra yar has revealed even more and has prompted me to add another notch t the score. Most noticeably a glorious, perfumed fragrance has emerged. It's from the wonderful 2018 vintage, which continues to amaze with its red wines...

Margaret River

Malbec

What a thoroughly beautiful example of a pure varietal malbec from Margaret River. This is from a small block on Carter Road and displays all the characters of this variety, with a subtlety and finesse not normally seen. Bright red fruits revealing slightly jubey rhubarb character with some nice darker touches on the nose. The palate is supremely balanced with...

Margaret River

Malbec

The colour is the first thing you note. It's deep, it's dark, and it's opaque. Then the nose, loaded with ripe red juby fruit, before a wave of plummy, black-fruited flavours and blackberry aromas. The palate is tremendously fruity and rich, with a dark-chocolate, black-fruit mix and then that final lick of oak which comes from the year in French...

Margaret River

Cabernet Franc

There's plenty of punch in this cabernet franc that comes from smack bang in the heart of Wilyabrup. Perfume notes of the variety are well to the fore with lifted red fruit, floral notes. The palate is beautifully structured. This is no simple cab franc. This is a cab franc with poise, polish, and structure. A fine thread of tannin...

Margaret River

Shiraz Blend

The colour is an almost impenetrable reddy black. The fruit comes off the long-established Redbrook Vineyard. So even in very warm vintages like '24, it comes in balanced and ready to strut its stuff. Ripe, plummy blackcurrant and blackberry notes with a little dark chocolate and cedary oak. Palate is rich, textured and almost lavish in expression. Rolling effortlessly towards...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A fully ripe and juicy cabernet displaying all the blackcurrant varietal character of this variety. There's a little bay leaf and chocolaty back olive combination. The palate has good flesh which is supported by a firm core of chalky tannin and oak. A minerally graphite nuance completes the wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A smooth and generously dimensioned cabernet from this cooler season. On the nose you get a mix of plum and mulberry with the more typical cassis lurking behind. The palate then adds a rich chocolate character with a subtle edgier black olive tapenade. It’s balanced and ideal for current drinking.

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This captures everything that is the Swan valley. Griffiths gets the fruit from his own, now mature, vineyard, and from nearby quality shiraz growers. It has everything. Deep plummy, black fruits on the palate with a dark chocolate and lightly red fruit influenced aroma. The palate is sublime. Soft and supple but with fine chalky tannins and perfectly weighted oak...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Griffiths has moved outside the Swan Valley, as he sometimes does, to source fruit for this cabernet sauvignon. It's a beautifully expressive wine that captures the region perfectly with the medium weight of the fruit and that subtle, very slight graphite and ironstone character. The aromas are bright, blackberry with a little even blue fruit influence. Seamlessly structured and integrated...

Swan Valley

Grenache

These old vines in the Swan Valley handled the heat of 2024 really well. It’s mostly grenache, but there’s a tiny bit of mataro and shiraz. Strong red fruits on the nose, with a plummy dominance, and a palate which is generous and quite supple. The tannins have a slightly chalky character which offsets the plushness of the red fruits,...

Swan Valley

Petit Verdot

Griffiths has managed to coax and control the absolute best features from this variety. It can get away from you with, but everything has been expertly harnessed. Intense black fruits, with dark chocolate and a lift of cherry and violet. The mid-palate softness is a feature. A thoroughly engaging wine for current drinking while those jubey red fruits are so...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

An excellent pinot sourced from the famous Wignalls Vineyard, right on the edge of Albany, from vines that are now more than 40 years old. There are beautiful red fruits on the nose, with some cherry and raspberry notes, a little spice, and just a little cranberry character. The palate is deeply intense but deftly controlled, with a firmish core...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

The fruit for this exceptional Swan Valley shiraz comes from Griffiths’ Faber vineyard. Seriously dark, almost opaque colour of deep red and black. Aromas of spices, dark chocolate and rich ripe plum burst open on the nose. Then the inky palate releases a mass of rich black fruit flavours of great power but with an effortless almost elegant presentation. It’s...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This has been a terrifically consistent wine from Faber, made from the best fruit they can source from their Swan Valley vineyard and some nearby vineyards. It was another very good year in the Swan Valley, and this one delivers with power and opulence, balanced with the typical Swan Valley softness and generosity. Bright floral notes with dark red fruits...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

Now this one is special. Having tasted many of these over the years, I don’t believe I’ve tasted a better one, and there have been some good’uns. It comes from fruit grown on Griffiths and neighbouring vineyards. It’s a wine of deep, impenetrable colour, intense aromas and a plush, richly flavoured palate. On the nose, there’s a dark plummy blackberry...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

A really bright and concentrated vibrant red wine from the Swan Valley. The colour radiates bright red and crimson hues. The nose has an intense combo of red fruit with raspberry and plummy notes. The palate is vibrant medium bodied with a jubey delicious red fruit flavour augmented with some nice oak treatment. What a brilliant wine for the medium...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

The planets aligned in this season all across the state, especially in the Swan Valley, where the reds show incredible depth and intensity with beautiful aromatic floral notes adding to the appeal. Griffiths has been producing this for a while, and each year it comes up trumps. He uses seasoned American and French oak, which contributes to its richness and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

From the very early, ripe 2020 vintage is this exceptional cabernet that's emerged from Willy Abrah. The aroma's classically Margaret River, with blackcurrant, dark chocolate and black olive tapenade, all swirling through an immensely complex aromatic mix. Has a smooth, supple, although well-structured palate, supported with fine, firmish tannins and some really well-laid oak. Has that slightly dried, savoury, oyster-shell-like...